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Alternative RSS-reader v1.2

Posted by Madjo on the 07 01 05 - 14:02

Author icon. Author: MadJo
Email icon. Email: mdejong@gmail.com
Website icon. Website: madjo.nl

Apparently, this extension is not wanted (not my words), so I advise people who use this, to not use it anymore.



The default RSS-reader of Pivot caches an rss-feed for 8 hours, while this is good for the used bandwidth of the hosting party of the feed, for some other rss-feeds (such as a ‘currently listening’ feed) this is way too long.

I therefore adjusted the default rss-reader, to also include an adjustable cache time.
The installation instructions are as follows (also found in the readme.txt inside the zip file):
1 download the zip file
2 extract all three files
3 and upload them into your extensions/snippets folder

download:altrss.zip:icon::Alternative RSS-reader]][[download:altrss.zip:text:Alternative RSS-reader:ALTRSS-extension->

Usage:
It basically works the same as the regular [[rss]] tag, but it has an added value:

[[altrss:number of entries shown:address of the rss feed:layout of the result:cache-time in minutes]]

The cache time defaults to 8 hours (if it is left empty), also it is recommended to use values that are equal or higher than 5 minutes, for the sake of the bandwidth of the site where you grabbed the rss-feed. :) (you can’t actually set it lower than 5 minutes, because if it is set lower, the plugin will default to 5 minutes)
Also please do not use this for normal sites, but only for special sites, which warrant the shorter caching time (and can handle the stress)!




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